Time to Vote and Change the Government

Its TIME TO VOTE


The only way to make difference in the society is by voting.VOTE n take
a step forward for making a Revolution!!



Lets start by simply creating awareness to vote for a less corrupt
govt.[you know what i mean ;) ] everyday by informing 5 people(right


from the rickshawallahs,servants to boss,neighbours)

!! JAAGO YUVAA JAAGO !!

(Approx. 60% of India's population is Youth)



who are really willing to contribute towards nation!!

Jai Hind..


Pass it on ...


Elections are just around the corner.

Do you want all that has in happened in past 5 yrs to repeat??...NO....
then VOTE BABY VOTE...

If you say that all candidates are UNFIT and that you DO NOT want to VOTE them...
STILL GO....

Go to the polling booth and say NO VOTE so that your VOTE IS COUNTED and that it is not misused by a FAKE CAST....

How??

OK so here we have RULE 49-O

It simply enables your vote to be COUNTED even if you DO NOT want to CAST your PRECIOUS vote to any candidate
Simply go to the PRESIDING OFFICER at the POOLING BOOTH and ask him for FORM 17-A or NO VOTE FORM and sign it. This makes your vote COUNTED.

Now, THE MISCONCEPTION.

"If number of people invoking the right to 49-O become more than the total number of votes to the winning candidate, then a RE-POLL is ordered and that their candidature is canceled for future.".

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

RULE 49-O EXISTS ONLY FOR VOTE TALLYING PURPOSE.

BUT this is NOT the solution.... so VOTE a COMPARATIVELY BETTER CANDIDATE to get a comparatively BETTER GOVERNMENT....

and those who are ABOVE 18 and DO NOT have an ELECTORAL IDENTITY CARD or a VOTER CARD, pleaseeeee get it made...

and pleaseeeeee DO NOT reply to this post with "good" or "nice" .... when you REPLY, reply with the NUMBER OF PEOPLE whom you have INSPIRED and made AWARE about VOTING and its related procedures... then I would reply to your posts with these adjectives.....

LETTER OF EDITOR OF TIMES OF INDIA TO PRIMEMINISTER

Dear Mr. Prime minister

I am a typical mouse from Mumbai.. In the local train compartment which has capacity of 100 persons, I travel with 500 more mouse. Mouse at least squeak but we don't even do that.

Today I heard your speech. In which you said 'NO BODY WOULD BE SPARED'. I would like to remind you that fourteen years has passed since serial bomb blast in Mumbai took place. Dawood was the main conspirator. Till today he is not caught. All our bolywood actors, our builders, our Gutka king meets him but your Government can not catch him. Reason is simple; all your ministers are hand in glove with him. If any attempt is made to catch him everybody will be exposed. Your statement 'NOBODY WOULD BE SPARED' is nothing but a cruel joke on this unfortunate people of India ..

Enough is enough. As such after seeing terrorist attack carried out by about a dozen young boys I realize that if same thing continues days are not away when terrorist will attack by air, destroy our nuclear reactor and there will be one more Hiroshima .

We the people are left with only one mantra. Womb to Bomb to Tomb. You promised Mumbaikar Shanghai what you have given us is Jalianwala Baug.

Today only your home minister resigned. What took you so long to kick out this joker? Only reason was that he was loyal to Gandhi family. Loyalty to Gandhi family is more important than blood of innocent people, isn't it?

I am born and bought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar . Look at all the politician, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is one of the worst Chief minister I have seen. His only business is to increase the FSI every other day, make money and send it to Delhi so Congress can fight next election. Now the clown has found new way and will increase FSI for fisherman so they can build concrete house right on sea shore. Next time terrorist can comfortably live in those house , enjoy the beauty of sea and then attack the Mumbai at their will.

Recently I had to purchase house in Mumbai. I met about two dozen builders. Everybody wanted about 30% in black. A common person like me knows this and with all your intelligent agency & CBI you and your finance minister are not aware of it. Where all the black money goes? To the underworld isn't it? Our politicians take help of these goondas to vacate people by force. I myself was victim of it. If you have time please come to me, I will tell you everything.

If this has been land of fools, idiots then I would not have ever cared to write you this letter. Just see the tragedy, on one side we are reaching moon, people are so intelligent and on other side you politician has converted nectar into deadly poison. I am everything Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Schedule caste, OBC, Muslim OBC, Christian Schedule caste, Creamy Schedule caste only what I am not is INDIAN. You politician have raped every part of mother India by your policy of divide and rule.

Take example of former president Abdul Kalam. Such a intelligent person, such a fine human being. You politician didn't even spare him. Your party along with opposition joined the hands, because politician feels they are supreme and there is no place for good person.

Dear Mr Prime minister you are one of the most intelligent person, most learned person. Just wake up, be a real SARDAR. First and foremost expose all selfish politician. Ask Swiss bank to give name of all Indian account holders. Give reins of CBI to independent agency. Let them find wolf among us. There will be political upheaval but that will better than dance of death which we are witnessing every day. Just give us ambient where we can work honestly and without fear. Let there be rule of law. Everything else will be taken care of.

Choice is yours Mr. Prime Minister. Do you want to be lead by one person or you want to lead the nation of 100 Crore people?

Prakash B. Bajaj

Editor Mumbai-Times of India

Chandralok 'A" Wing, Flat No 104

97 Nepean Sea Road

Mumbai 400 036

Phone 98210-71194

PLEASE READ N FORWARD AS MANY PEOPLE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST

Back 2 Israel news. What game government is playing with us?

                                                               

Israel deal commission could be Rs900 cr

2 Indian dealers, 2 Israeli parties linked to contract

Josy Joseph. New Delhi

A consortium of powerful arms dealers from India and Israel was deployed by cash-strapped Israeli defence equipment companies to swing the Rs10,000 crore medium-range surface-to-air missiles (MRSAM) deal with the defence ministry. The contract was signed on February 27 with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and it included a controversial payment of Rs600 crore (6% of contract value) as "business charges". Sources told DNA that the actual amount of illegal commission paid may have been even higher at 9%, and two of India's powerful arms dealers may have joined hands with two of Israel's in closing the deal on the eve of the elections. The contract includes joint development of the missiles in association with the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). In a series of investigative articles over the past week, DNA showed how the UPA government pushed through the controversial deal with IAI, which is already under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Barak missile scam of 2000. Despite initial vigilance worries, vague legal opinion and negative consequences for the indigenously-produced missiles in the same class, the government went ahead with the deal and asked IAI to keep quiet about it for a while. DNA's disclosures forced the deal out in the open. The key arms dealers involved are said to be Sudhir Choudhary and his associates, on behalf of IAI. Suresh Nanda, son of a former navy chief, was deployed on behalf of Rafael, which will end up getting over Rs3,000 crore in the deal. Both Choudhary and Nanda were named in the CBI's FIR filed in 2006 in the Barak scandal.• Deal to help revive IAI p20

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'Indian money in Swiss & other banks is over Rs 70 lakh crore'

Source : DNA newspaper

'Indian money in Swiss & other banks is over Rs 70 lakh crore'

Vivek Kaul

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 2:41 IST

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Mumbai: It is no secret that black money has been flowing out of the country into Swiss banks and other tax havens worldwide for years now. While there is no official estimate to quote yet, LK Advani, the prime ministerial candidate of BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, recently said it might be in the range of Rs 25,000 crore to Rs 75,000 crore. R Vaidyanathan, professor of finance at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a regular columnist for DNA, feels the real figure is many times that number.

At around $1.4 trillion (over Rs 70 lakh crore), it is way over India's gross domestic product of Rs 43 lakh crore for 2007-08, Vaidyanathan, who was on Tuesday named the head of a taskforce by Advani for preparing a strategic document to get back the national wealth, told DNA. Excerpts:

Which are the various tax havens where the ill-gotten wealth of Indian businessmen and politicians is stored?
There are presumably more than 70 tax havens in the world. Indian wealth could be more in Switzerland and various British/ US islands.

How much Indian money do you think would be locked away in Swiss banks? What is the basis for the estimate you make?
I make this estimate on the basis of a report titled "Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2002--2006, Global Financial Integrity," written by Dev Kar and Devon-Cartwright Smith. It was a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the final report was released sometime back in December 2008.

Financial flows in the context of this report include proceeds from both illicit activities such as corruption (bribery and embezzlement of national wealth), criminal activity, and the proceeds of licit business that become illicit when transported across borders in contravention of applicable laws and regulatory frameworks (most commonly in order to evade payment of taxes).

In 2006, the most recent year of the Global Financial Integrity (GFI) study, developing countries lost an estimated $858.6 billion to $1.06 trillion in illicit financial outflows. Even at the lower end of the range of estimates, the volume of illicit financial flows coming out of developing countries increased at a compound rate of 18.2% over the five-year period analysed for the study.

How much of this was siphoned out of India?
On an average, for the five-year period of this study, Asia accounts for approximately 50% of overall illicit financial flows from all developing countries. This report shows that the average amount moved from India annually during 2002-06 is $27.3 billion. This means, during the five-year period, the amount taken away is $27.3 billion x 5 = $136.5 billion.

It is not that all these amounts went to Swiss banks; it has gone to different tax and secret shelters. The share of Swiss banks in this dirty money is a third of the global aggregate; some $45 billion out of the 136.5 billion stashed away from India would have been hoarded in these years in Swiss banks. This appears in page 30 of the report mentioned above.

The important point is that this is only for five years. More amounts were stashed away during the Nehruvian socialist regime. So the loot for 55 years would be several times the amount. In fact, in those days, the Indian rupee commanded a better value per US dollar, so fewer rupees could get a dollar. Hence the estimation that Indian money stashed away may be of the order of $1.4 trillion.

How did the money get out?
There are several methods/ reasons --- under-invoicing/ over-invoicing of exports and imports and getting the balance stored abroad; kickbacks from major defence/ civilian contracts; in the olden days, smuggling of gold and illegal money; transactions done abroad and not reported here; hawala funds; funds earned by artists/ entertainment industry/ sports people and stashed away abroad, etc. When you want to indulge in adharma, hundred ways are open.

Do you feel international terrorist organisations use the tax-haven route to send across money to finance their nefarious activities?
Even our national security advisor, M K Narayanan, has spoken about it in Berlin.
You recently wrote, "Under pressure from federal authorities, Swiss bank UBS is closing the hidden offshore accounts of its well-heeled American clients, potentially allowing their secrets to spill into the open."

Do you feel the government of India should also demand all the Indian black money in Swiss banks back?
Of course, India should and must act. We are not a banana republic.

How can the government go about doing this?
By putting it on the global agenda. Put it in G20. Put it in IMF. Put it in Egmont Group. Also take a lead among all developing countries. Support US/ German/ French efforts.

Do you feel Swiss authorities and other tax havens will cooperate with us on this issue if we take the initiative?
It is not our pressure but that of the US, which will make them cooperate. When a family is in deep financial crisis, it tries to look at the small amount saved under the sugar jar by grandma. In the same way, developed economies are desperate for every dollar.
Even if we do not act due to their efforts, the list of crooks may be out. Then, we will be in a dangerous social situation since the who's who of India will be there. Instead, we should get the list and get the funds and decide on the steps to sterilise it and the punishment to be given out, etc. Otherwise the world will laugh at us. We will be worse than a Nigeria (Sani Abacha) or Phillipines (Markose).

Do you feel the government will do this, given that a lot of the black money belongs to politicians?
Public pressure will make them do it. Plus, the evolving global situation against tax havens also might act in our favour. The money belongs to the poor farmers and unorganised workers.

Do you see businessmen applying pressure on the government to thwart any attempt to get back this money?
The world situation is such that Indian businessmen will want to bring it back now, given the attractive returns in India. The entire proprietary notes route to invest in the stock market was conceived for that.

You wrote in one of your columns that the German foreign intelligence agency BND got the names of 1,400 clients of the Liechtenstein-based LTG Bank who were suspected tax evaders. Of the 1,400, only 600 were supposed to be Germans. Do you think the rest would include Indians? Has the Indian government approached the German government for the list?
Indian names will be there. Our tax evaders and crooks are like Maha Vishnu, present in all continents and all tax havens, in the sea, on the earth, in the air. But our government has been lukewarm in its response to this issue. It should have immediately dispatched senior officials and the finance minister to get the names.